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If anyone has a good anchovy pattern, I’m all ears. I ran into a ton of them today that were smaller than chum fry.
SF

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Stonedfish said:
If anyone has a good anchovy pattern, I’m all ears. I ran into a ton of them today that were smaller than chum fry.
SF

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We also ran into large schools of small anchovies at nearly every place we stopped last weekend. Fish were on em but it felt nearly impossible to get a fish to take a fly when they had thousands of anchovies at their disposal. Every fly we tried would eventually get a grab or two but nothing consistent.
 
ffb said:
We also ran into large schools of small anchovies at nearly every place we stopped last weekend. Fish were on em but it felt nearly impossible to get a fish to take a fly when they had thousands of anchovies at their disposal. Every fly we tried would eventually get a grab or two but nothing consistent.
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Jon,
My same experience today. I felt lucky with the fish I caught as my fly was two times bigger than the naturals. The fish were on them today which had me wondering if the fish were stuff. 🤔
SF
 
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We’ve been seeing a lot of those anchovies the last few weeks as well. Did a mixed chum/ SRC day today. Not great on the SRC front and non existent on the chum front. A few SRC to hand plus a one I snagged in the adipose somehow. Crappy tides with lots of junk in the water as well.

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Caught a couple in this class. Small and skinny!

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Snagged in the adipose. Not something that happens a lot with SRC.

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We also saw one of the largest sea stars I have ever come across. I’d say 1.5 feet from arm tip to arm tip at least. Short spines sea star I think??

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